QuickBooks Premier Professional Services 2010
- QuickBooks Premier Professional Services 2010 helps you easily organize and maintain your business finances all in one place
- Track and bill time & expenses by employee, project, client or service
- Set flexible billing rates and transfer time & expenses to customized invoices
- Analyze profitability by project and client
- Instantly create invoices, track payments and manage expenses
Product Description
QuickBooks Premier Professional Services offers client services firms an easy set of accounting, time tracking and expense management tools to meet the demands of today’s client service business needs. Use industry tools to track and bill time, set flexible billing rates, analyze profitability by project or client and more. Plus, get all the advantages of QuickBooks Pro.Amazon.com Product Description
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We love the product, but the help documentation could be more user-friendly. This product assumes some prior knowledge and is not very straight-forward in offering the novice a step-by-step assistance to starting up the first time.
Rating: 4 / 5
Comment by SW Librarian — February 5, 2010 @ 12:26 am
I’m a light user of QuickBooks and have had the 2006 Premier Professional Services since (you guessed it) 2006. In 2006 the most compelling feature for me was the ability to email invoices as PDF’s right from QuickBooks! What the box didn’t tell me is that you are forced to send the email from within the program to Intuits email servers, bypassing the ability to save it in my email’s Sent Items and submitting my client info to Intuit — no thanks!
So for years I’ve had to Save as PDF and manually attach them to my email client. In 2008 they added a feature which touts, “Send e-mails directly from QuickBooks using MS Outlook…”. Intuit introduces these “filler features” to address obvious shortcomings in the product just so they have more bullet points to promote the next version.
I took the plunge and upgraded to 2010 to gain the emailing from Outlook feature, which is now 2-years mature. The good: Invoices are attached as a PDF to an Outlook email. The bad: You have no control over what the PDF filename is. Been naming your invoices as, [...]
Mark my words — customization of PDF names will be a new filler-feature in QuickBooks 2012.
The Layout Designer for customizing invoices was HORRIBLE in 2006 and is still one of the worst UI’s I’ve had the unpleasure of working with. Say you want to change the font/color/size of the customer name, address, terms fields on the form. Prepare to spend time editing each field manually as you right-click each box and edit the same properties over, and over again. There is no mass selection tool. You can CTRL+Click for multi-select, but you can’t edit the properties of multiple fields at the same time.
Time entry and price levels per customer are very nice features that work. If you are an existing Premier user be sure you set your expectations low for any new feature that is compelling you to upgrade.
Rating: 2 / 5
Comment by AssortedX — February 5, 2010 @ 1:02 am